Guest Blogger:Akaisha Kaderli
Do you dream of becoming a millionaire? Living a life of luxury, no money worries, traveling when and where you want.
Chart of Smart Sally’s years of investing and her contributions.
This pay-yourself-first-plan is separate from your student loans, from your company’s 401(k) matching plans, separate from purchasing a vacation, a home, or having a child. This money is for YOU and is not to be touched for anything else in your life until it can produce enough gains per year to cover your living expenses.
Once there, you are considered to be Financially Independent.
The take away from this exercise is to get started as early as you can, pay yourself first, and even small deposits of ten dollars a day will grow to where you, too, can travel the world and live your life on your terms.
What are you waiting for?
Take charge of your life and make it happen. Start today!
Editor’s note: If you have children or grandchildren, your commitment to this simple investing/savings plan for them will surely change their lives. We would recommend not letting them know about this gift until they are older and wiser, so as not to place temptation to spend in front of them!
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About the Author:
Having retired at the age of 38 in 1991, Billy and Akaisha Kaderli are recognized retirement experts and internationally published authors on topics of finance, world travel and medical tourism.
They have been interviewed about retirement issues by The Wall Street Journal, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine, The Motley Fool Rule Your Retirement newsletter, nationally syndicated radio talk show host Clark Howard, Bankrate.com, SmartMoney, Minyanville, FOXBusiness and countless newspapers and TV shows nationally and worldwide.
With the wealth of information they share on their award winning websiteRetireEarlyLifestyle, they have been helping people achieve their own retirement dreams since 1991.
Chart of the S&P 500 performance from October, 1917 to October, 2018, Over a 10% Annual Return
Sally knows that ten dollars isn’t going to get her to a million in her lifetime – that’s how smart she is – so she adds $10.00each day, and after one yearher account has grown to $3,838.21. Not bad for her first birthday.
Sally also understands the importance of paying herself first. Before that Latté, before going out shoe shopping, before anything else including rent, car payments or purchasing a home,she makes her deposit into her future.
She continues with her investment plan making contributions daily, andon her 34th birthdayher account has grown to $1,047,105.61. Congratulations Sally on being a millionaire and – while most of her friends are trying to figure out what they are going to do with their lives at that age – she has accumulated a substantial nest egg.
This is the Power of Compounding.
But Sally isn’t finished.
She has big dreams.
So, she continues with making ten-dollar daily deposits into her account andon her 40th birthday has close to two million dollars; $1,934,668.51.Wow, in just six years almost a doubling of her account value,andher total daily investment was only $146,000 over that fort- year period.
Again, this illustrates the Power of Compounding.
What if you start later in life?
Now everyone cannot be as smart as Sally and begin investing right at birth, but Johnny is no slouch andbegan his program on his 15th birthdaywith his grass cutting, leaf raking and snow removal proceeds andby the time he was 55 years old– which is considered early retirement- he too accumulated close to 2 million Dollars.
Even if you waited until you were 25 years oldto start this plan when you reach the retirement age of 65 you will have a sizeable net worth.
Chart of Smart Sally’s years of investing and her contributions.
This pay-yourself-first-plan is separate from your student loans, from your company’s 401(k) matching plans, separate from purchasing a vacation, a home, or having a child. This money is for YOU and is not to be touched for anything else in your life until it can produce enough gains per year to cover your living expenses.
Once there, you are considered to be Financially Independent.
The take away from this exercise is to get started as early as you can, pay yourself first, and even small deposits of ten dollars a day will grow to where you, too, can travel the world and live your life on your terms.
What are you waiting for?
Take charge of your life and make it happen. Start today!
Editor’s note: If you have children or grandchildren, your commitment to this simple investing/savings plan for them will surely change their lives. We would recommend not letting them know about this gift until they are older and wiser, so as not to place temptation to spend in front of them!
Did you enjoy this article? Become a Kuel Life Member today to support our ad-free Community. Sign-up for our Sunday newsletter and get your expert content delivered straight to your inbox.
About the Author:
Having retired at the age of 38 in 1991, Billy and Akaisha Kaderli are recognized retirement experts and internationally published authors on topics of finance, world travel and medical tourism.
They have been interviewed about retirement issues by The Wall Street Journal, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine, The Motley Fool Rule Your Retirement newsletter, nationally syndicated radio talk show host Clark Howard, Bankrate.com, SmartMoney, Minyanville, FOXBusiness and countless newspapers and TV shows nationally and worldwide.
With the wealth of information they share on their award winning websiteRetireEarlyLifestyle, they have been helping people achieve their own retirement dreams since 1991.
Chart of the S&P 500 performance from October, 1917 to October, 2018, Over a 10% Annual Return
Sally knows that ten dollars isn’t going to get her to a million in her lifetime – that’s how smart she is – so she adds $10.00each day, and after one yearher account has grown to $3,838.21. Not bad for her first birthday.
Sally also understands the importance of paying herself first. Before that Latté, before going out shoe shopping, before anything else including rent, car payments or purchasing a home,she makes her deposit into her future.
She continues with her investment plan making contributions daily, andon her 34th birthdayher account has grown to $1,047,105.61. Congratulations Sally on being a millionaire and – while most of her friends are trying to figure out what they are going to do with their lives at that age – she has accumulated a substantial nest egg.
This is the Power of Compounding.
But Sally isn’t finished.
She has big dreams.
So, she continues with making ten-dollar daily deposits into her account andon her 40th birthday has close to two million dollars; $1,934,668.51.Wow, in just six years almost a doubling of her account value,andher total daily investment was only $146,000 over that fort- year period.
Again, this illustrates the Power of Compounding.
What if you start later in life?
Now everyone cannot be as smart as Sally and begin investing right at birth, but Johnny is no slouch andbegan his program on his 15th birthdaywith his grass cutting, leaf raking and snow removal proceeds andby the time he was 55 years old– which is considered early retirement- he too accumulated close to 2 million Dollars.
Even if you waited until you were 25 years oldto start this plan when you reach the retirement age of 65 you will have a sizeable net worth.
Chart of Smart Sally’s years of investing and her contributions.
This pay-yourself-first-plan is separate from your student loans, from your company’s 401(k) matching plans, separate from purchasing a vacation, a home, or having a child. This money is for YOU and is not to be touched for anything else in your life until it can produce enough gains per year to cover your living expenses.
Once there, you are considered to be Financially Independent.
The take away from this exercise is to get started as early as you can, pay yourself first, and even small deposits of ten dollars a day will grow to where you, too, can travel the world and live your life on your terms.
What are you waiting for?
Take charge of your life and make it happen. Start today!
Editor’s note: If you have children or grandchildren, your commitment to this simple investing/savings plan for them will surely change their lives. We would recommend not letting them know about this gift until they are older and wiser, so as not to place temptation to spend in front of them!
Did you enjoy this article? Become a Kuel Life Member today to support our ad-free Community. Sign-up for our Sunday newsletter and get your expert content delivered straight to your inbox.
About the Author:
Having retired at the age of 38 in 1991, Billy and Akaisha Kaderli are recognized retirement experts and internationally published authors on topics of finance, world travel and medical tourism.
They have been interviewed about retirement issues by The Wall Street Journal, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine, The Motley Fool Rule Your Retirement newsletter, nationally syndicated radio talk show host Clark Howard, Bankrate.com, SmartMoney, Minyanville, FOXBusiness and countless newspapers and TV shows nationally and worldwide.
With the wealth of information they share on their award winning websiteRetireEarlyLifestyle, they have been helping people achieve their own retirement dreams since 1991.
Wow! Sounds great doesn’t it?
Well, you can become a millionaire and live the life of your dreams.
Everyone has heard that if you just give up that Latte or pack your lunch daily you can achieve this goal. And you can, but that’s only half of the story, perhaps you can wrap your mind around the following idea more easily.
Whentobegin:
Smart Sally, is really smart.
On the day she was born she deposited $10.00 Dollars into the S&P 500 index. Fidelity is now offering a no fee, no minimum account balance fund which would work for this.
Assuming that the S&P 500 Index performs as it has for the last 100 years, Sally’s investment will grow at a ten percent annual rate with dividends re-invested.
Chart of the S&P 500 performance from October, 1917 to October, 2018, Over a 10% Annual Return
Sally knows that ten dollars isn’t going to get her to a million in her lifetime – that’s how smart she is – so she adds $10.00each day, and after one yearher account has grown to $3,838.21. Not bad for her first birthday.
Sally also understands the importance of paying herself first. Before that Latté, before going out shoe shopping, before anything else including rent, car payments or purchasing a home,she makes her deposit into her future.
She continues with her investment plan making contributions daily, andon her 34th birthdayher account has grown to $1,047,105.61. Congratulations Sally on being a millionaire and – while most of her friends are trying to figure out what they are going to do with their lives at that age – she has accumulated a substantial nest egg.
This is the Power of Compounding.
But Sally isn’t finished.
She has big dreams.
So, she continues with making ten-dollar daily deposits into her account andon her 40th birthday has close to two million dollars; $1,934,668.51.Wow, in just six years almost a doubling of her account value,andher total daily investment was only $146,000 over that fort- year period.
Again, this illustrates the Power of Compounding.
What if you start later in life?
Now everyone cannot be as smart as Sally and begin investing right at birth, but Johnny is no slouch andbegan his program on his 15th birthdaywith his grass cutting, leaf raking and snow removal proceeds andby the time he was 55 years old– which is considered early retirement- he too accumulated close to 2 million Dollars.
Even if you waited until you were 25 years oldto start this plan when you reach the retirement age of 65 you will have a sizeable net worth.
Chart of Smart Sally’s years of investing and her contributions.
This pay-yourself-first-plan is separate from your student loans, from your company’s 401(k) matching plans, separate from purchasing a vacation, a home, or having a child. This money is for YOU and is not to be touched for anything else in your life until it can produce enough gains per year to cover your living expenses.
Once there, you are considered to be Financially Independent.
The take away from this exercise is to get started as early as you can, pay yourself first, and even small deposits of ten dollars a day will grow to where you, too, can travel the world and live your life on your terms.
What are you waiting for?
Take charge of your life and make it happen. Start today!
Editor’s note: If you have children or grandchildren, your commitment to this simple investing/savings plan for them will surely change their lives. We would recommend not letting them know about this gift until they are older and wiser, so as not to place temptation to spend in front of them!
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